git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
To: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: feature request
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:00:01 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_iRRLFmL33UcLRowbbJqG+JoJt011yg=R3s4MegE4_JbA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB9Jk9DaJnN9wmzi-4P3+PqBOobOapnU50y5zkKV9-1CNpV3Yw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Angelo Borsotti
<angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> one nice thing is to warn a developer that wants to modify a source
> file, that there is somebody else changing it beforehand. It is nicer
> than discovering that at push time.

Andrew:

also see http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/locking.html for a way to
do file locking (and enforce it) using gitolite.

This does warn, as long as the user remembers to try to acquire a lock
before working on a binary file.  (You can't get around that
requirement on a DVCS, sorry!)

> Take into account that there are changes in files that may be
> incompatible to each other, or that can be amenable to be
> automatically merged producing wrong results. So, knowing it could
> help.
>
> -Angelo
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



-- 
Sitaram

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-16 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-16 11:36 feature request Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-16 12:15 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-10-16 17:27   ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-16 23:30     ` Sitaram Chamarty [this message]
2012-10-17  0:00     ` Andrew Ardill
2012-10-16 13:34 ` Christian Thaeter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-18 18:52 Jay Townsend
2013-02-18 19:54 ` James Nylen
2013-02-18 20:45   ` Jeff King
2013-02-19  3:26     ` Drew Northup
2013-02-19 22:27     ` Shawn Pearce
2016-10-27 21:55 John Rood
2016-10-27 22:01 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-27 22:05   ` John Rood
2016-10-27 22:24     ` John Rood
2016-10-27 22:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 22:48         ` John Rood
2016-10-27 22:51           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 23:16             ` John Rood
2016-10-27 22:30 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-27 22:44   ` John Rood
2016-10-27 22:46     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 23:24     ` David Lang
2016-10-28  8:49       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-28 12:54       ` Philip Oakley
2024-06-20 12:58 Feature Request Clement Sello Tsetsa
2024-06-20 13:29 ` rsbecker

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='CAMK1S_iRRLFmL33UcLRowbbJqG+JoJt011yg=R3s4MegE4_JbA@mail.gmail.com' \
    --to=sitaramc@gmail.com \
    --cc=andrew.ardill@gmail.com \
    --cc=angelo.borsotti@gmail.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).